D'Arcy book red 2013 14/8/13 14:47 Page 6 Programme Day 1 Monday 19th August, 2013 Venue: Louth Heritage Centre, Carlingford, Co Louth MORNING SESSION 09.00 – 10.00 Registration Chair: Jim D’Arcy Jim D’Arcy was nominated to the Seanad Éireann by An Taoiseach in May 2011. He is the Fine Gael spokesperson on Education in the Seanad and a member of the Joint Committee for the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement and the Joint Committee on Education. He was Chairperson of Louth County Council from 2009-2010 and was Chairperson of Dundalk Town Council from 2007-2008. Jim D’Arcy is a life-long member of Fine Gael who was first elected to Louth County Council in 1999 and Dundalk Town Council in 2004. Jim studied History and Politics at the Open University having qualified as a National School Teacher at St Patrick’s College in Drumcondra. Jim is the Seanad spokesperson on Education and Skills and is a fluent Irish Speaker. He was the main mover behind the proposed re-naming of the Boyne Cable Bridge on the M1 Motorway the Mary Mc Aleese Bridge. He is also a Member of the North / South Parliamentary Association. 10.00 Conference Opening: Denis Cummins, President, Dundalk Institute of Technology 10.15 Canadian Ambassador to Ireland, His Excellency Loyola Hearn 10.30 Chair: Senator Jim D’Arcy David Wilson, Professor of Celtic Studies, University of Toronto. D’Arcy McGee; Fenianism & Orangeism A Professor in the History Department and Coordinator of the Celtic Studies Programme at the University of Toronto, David A. Wilson is a recipient of the University’s Outstanding Teaching Award, and has pub- lished widely in the fields of Irish, British, Canadian and American history. His latest work, a two-volume biography of Thomas D’Arcy McGee, has been described as “one of the great historical biographies of our time.” It has won three major awards: best book in Irish history and social sciences (American Conference of Irish Studies); best book in Canadian arts and humanities (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada); and best book in Canadian political history (Canadian Historical Association). David likes to relax with a few Irish traditional tunes on the tin whistle, and the occasional pint of Guinness. 11.30 Open Forum 12.45pm Lunch D'Arcy book red 2013 14/8/13 14:47 Page 7 AFTERNOON SESSION 14.15 Johanne Devlin Trew and Liam Kennedy Chair: Johanne Trew, University of Ulster Dr. Johanne Devlin Trew, PhD, is lecturer in the School of Criminology, Politics & Social Policy, University of Ulster. Previously she held teaching and research posts in Irish history at the University of Ulster, Magee and Queen's University Belfast and in Irish studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Concordia University, Montreal. She is the author of Leaving the North: Migration and Memory, Northern Ireland, 1921-2011 (Liverpool University Press, 2013) and Place, Culture and Community: The Irish Heritage of the Ottawa Valley (CSP, 2009). Her principal research is in migration and Diaspora studies, but she also maintains a strong interest in the history, politics and culture of Canada, particularly Québec and Newfoundland. Liam Kennedy Originally from County Tipperary, Dr. Liam Kennedy is professor emeritus of economic history, Queen's University, Belfast. He was a founder member of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Association, which campaigned against ‘punishment’ beatings, shootings and expulsions carried out by loyalist and republcan paramilitary organisations. His most recent book is Ulster since 1600: Politics, Economy and Society (Oxford, 2013), co-edited with Philip Ollerenshaw. He is currently researching the Great Irish Famine and the history of the recent ‘Troubles’ in Northern Ireland. 15.15 Coffee break 15.15 - 16.30 Open Forum EVENING SESSION 19.30 Summer School Banquet, Sailing Centre, Carlingford Master of Ceremonies: Mr Jim Wells, DUP MLA, SouthDown Jim Wells has represented South Down in the Northern Ireland Assembly since 1986. He topped the poll in the Assembly election held in November 2003.He has also served on Banbridge and Down District Councils and was the chairman of the Housing Benefit Review Board for the Downpatrick area for 8 years. Jim is currently the Deputy Chairman of the Assembly Health Committee and served on the Assembly’s Enterprise,Trade and Investment Committee and the Regional Development Committee. He is also the secretary of the DUP Assembly Group at Stormont. Jim Wells played a crucial role in the negotiations which secured the future of South Down’s largest employer - the B/E Aerospace factory in Kilkeel. A member of the 3 Loyal Orders, Jim Wells is a strong opponent of the concessions made to Sinn Fein/IRA brought about by the Belfast Agreement. After Dinner Speakers: Jim Vincent, Associate Professor of English and Coordinator, Rooney International Scholar Program. Robert Norris, University Pittsburg USA. An American Perspective Professor Jim Vincent, born and reared in Ohio, has been a faculty member at Robert Morris University in the Pittsburgh suburbs of Pennsylvania since 1977. With Irish roots in Clare and Cork, Professor Vincent has had an Irish interest since his college days, making his first trip to the island in the summer of 1968. He has brought over 150 young Americans to the island over the last seven years, traveling mainly to South Armagh, Sligo and the beautiful north coast. He graduated from Hiram College in Ohio with a degree in literature and history; and he holds an advanced degree in the literature and linguistics from Indiana University. His teaching duties include linguistics, communications, Shakespeare, and major Irish writers. He is a veteran online teacher and recently was appointed Coordinator of the Rooney International Scholar Program, a funded project bringing international scholars to RMU for shorter stays and semester long residencies. 22.30 Irish traditional music session, Sailing Centre. D'Arcy book red 2013 14/8/13 14:47 Page 8 Programme Day 2 Tuesday 20th August, 2013 Venue: Louth Heritage Centre, Carlingford, Co Louth MORNING SESSION 9.45 John Kelly Chair: John Kelly Professor John Kelly is the Executive Director of the Ireland Canada University Foundation (www.icuf.ie) which provides short term visiting scholarships between the universities of both countries, and which he helped establish twenty years ago when he was the Registrar/ Deputy President of University College Dublin. He was a senior Fulbright Professor in the University of Maryland, member of the Higher Education Advisory Board in Hungary, Chairman of the European University Association’s Institutional Evaluation Programme, and Chairman of the Irish Aid Advisory Committee in the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs. He is now Professor Emeritus of UCD, Honorary Doctor of Humanities from Bethlehem University in Palestine, and Honorary Fellow and Director of the Irish Academy of Engineers. 10.00 Seamus Smyth “TORONTO THE BELFAST OF CANADA ; POWER, POLITICS AND ORANGEISM” William James Smyth, President Emeritus, National University of Ireland, Maynooth. His writings have focussed upon the role of the Irish in shap- ing the cultural geography of nineteenth and early twentieth century Canada. Co-author ( with Cecil Houston ) of The Sash Canada Wore (1980) and Irish Emigration and Canadian Settlement (1990), a third book, Toronto, The Belfast of Canada, will be published in 2014. Appointed the founding professor of geography in Maynooth in 1978, he subsequently became the first President of National University of Ireland Maynooth –retiring in 2004 . A graduate of the NUI he holds honorary doctorates from Queens University, Belfast, University of Ulster, University of Limerick and St Michael’s University, University of Toronto. 10.30 Coffee break D'Arcy book red 2013 14/8/13 14:47 Page 9 11.00 Dr. Ruth Dudley Edwards Ruth Dudley Edwards Dr. Ruth Dudley Edwards is a journalist, broadcaster, novelist and prize-winning historian whose non-fiction includes biographies of Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, of the left-wing publisher and controversialist Victor Gollancz, and of two titans of Fleet Street, Hugh Cudlipp and Cecil King, as well as The Pursuit of Reason: The Economist, 1843-1993, An Atlas of Irish History, The Faithful Tribe: an intimate portrait of the loyal institutions, and, most recently, Aftermath: the Omagh bombing and the families’ pursuit of justice. Her twelve crime novels include The Anglo-Irish Murders, a satire on the peace process.’ 11.30 Open Forum 12.45 Lunch AFTERNOON SESSION 14.00 Optional Activities - Networking time Guided Walk of Medieval Carlingford The Mourne-Cooley-Gullion Geotourism Project, in association with the Thomas D'Arcy Magee Summer School, will lead a Geology and Archaeology walk of the historic town of Carlingford focusing on the history and archaeology of the medieval town and the underlying geology of the area. The walk will be led by Geologist Dr. Siobhán E. Power and Archaeologist Dr. Vanessa Ryan from the Geotourism Project on Tuesday 20th August at 2.30pm. D'Arcy book red 2013 14/8/13 14:47 Page 10 EVENING SESSION 19.00 Patrick James Whelan’s trial Venue ; The Courthouse, Carlingford. Did Patrick James Whelan, convicted of murdering D'Arcy McGee, receive a fair trial? Especially commissioned dramatic presentation by Larry McArdle and Gavin O'Donoghue. 21.00 Canadian/Irish Folk Night Host; Ambassador Hearn Venue ; O’Hare’s, Carlingford. Ambassador Hearn invites singers, musicians and poets from Ireland & Canada to give musical voice to the story of Canadian Irish links. D'Arcy book red 2013 14/8/13 14:47 Page 11 Thomas D’Arcy McGee Summer School 2012 D'Arcy book red 2013 14/8/13 14:47 Page 12 Programme Day 3 Wednesday 21st August, 2013 Venue: Louth Heritage Centre, Carlingford, Co Louth MORNING SESSION 09.00 – 10.00 Chair D’Arcy McGee Quinn Chair: D’Arcy McGee Quinn Mr.